From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this June.

ArtSci on the Go

Looking for more ways to get more out of Arts & Sciences? Check out these resources to take ArtSci wherever you go!

Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese”听()

Black Composers Project engages the School of Music faculty and students ()

Ladino Day Interview with Leigh Bardugo & MELC Professor Canan Bolel ()

Back to School Podcast 听with Liz Copland ()

Featured Podcast: “Ways of Knowing” (College of Arts & Sciences)

This podcast highlights how studies of the humanities can reflect everyday life. Through a partnership between and the 天美影视传媒, each episode features a faculty member from the UW College of Arts & Sciences, who discusses the work that inspires them and suggests resources to learn more about the topic.

Episode 1: Digital Humanities with assistant professor of English and data science, Anna Preus.

Episode 2: Paratext with associate professor of French, Richard Watts.

Episode 3: Ge’ez with听associate professor of Middle Eastern languages and cultures, Hamza Zafer.

Closing Exhibits

Week of June 2

Monday, June 2, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | ONLINE ONLY: (Jackson School)

Join the Jackson School for Trump in the World 2.0, a series of talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency.

This week: Daniel Bessner; Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Monday, June 2, 5:00 – 7:00 pm | (Jackson School)

This talk discusses the unconventional forms of care that emerge out of Kurdish resistance in Turkey, where mothering becomes a powerful response against necropolitical state violence. By centering the stories of two Kurdish mothers who had to care for their dead children and mother beyond life under the violent state of emergency regime declared in 2015; the talk examines how Kurdish mothers 鈥渞escue the dead鈥� (Antoon, 2021) from the necropolitical state and create their necropolitical power through a radical embrace of death and decoupling of mothering from the corporeal link between the mother and the child.

Monday, June 2, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | (The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies)

Why do some protests in autocracies attract popular participation while others do not? Masaaki Higashijima’s, University of Tokyo, paper argues that when opposition elites and the masses have divergent motivations for protesting, anti-regime mobilization struggles to gain momentum. Moreover, this weak elite-mass linkage is further exacerbated when autocrats selectively repress protests led by opposition elites while making concessions to those organized by ordinary citizens.

Tuesday, June 3, 5:00 – 6:30 pm | (Communications)

A conversation with local public media leaders about current challenges–including federal funding cuts–and pathways forward for sustaining public service journalism.

Speakers include:

Rob Dunlop, President and CEO, Cascade PBS
David Fischer, President and General Manager, KNKX
Tina Pamintuan, incoming President and CEO, KUOW
Matthew Powers, Professor and Co-Director, Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy

Wednesday, June 4, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | (Psychology)

Cognitive biases 鈥� such as attentional biases toward aversive cues, distorted expectations of negative events, and biased interpretations of ambiguity 鈥� are central features of many forms of psychopathology. Gaining a deeper understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying these biases is crucial for advancing theoretical models and clinical interventions.

In this talk, Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer will present a series of studies exploring emotional biases in both healthy individuals and participants diagnosed with social anxiety, major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder.

Wednesday, June 4, 12:30 – 1:30 pm | (Center for Statistics & Social Sciences)

Many statistical analyses, in both observational data and randomized control trials, ask: how does the outcome of interest vary with combinations of observable covariates? How do various drug combinations affect health outcomes, or how does technology adoption depend on incentives and demographics? Tyler McCormick’s, Professor, Statistics & Sociology, 天美影视传媒, goal is to partition this factorial space into “pools” of covariate combinations where the outcome differs across the pools (but not within a pool).

Friday, June 6, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of concerto excerpts by York Bowen, Keiko Abe, and Camille Saint-Sa毛ns, performed with winners of the 2024-25 School of Music Concerto Competitions: Flora Cummings, viola; Kaisho Barnhill, marimba; and Sandy Huang, piano. Also on the program, works by Mikhail Glinka, Richard Wagner, and Giuseppe Verdi.

Saturday, June 7 & Sunday, June 8, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | (Burke Museum)

Stewart Wong will share knowledge and personal experiences about working with Broussonetia Papyrifera. He will talk about the history, uses, and cultivation of the paper mulberry plant. In addition, Stewart plans on dyeing, drawing on, and printing kapa. Stewart will have printed information and material samples to supplement the talk.

Saturday, June 7, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | On Our Terms with Wakulima USA (Burke Museum)

Join the Burke Museum for a short screening from “,” plus a conversation with co-producer Aaron McCanna and Wakulima USA’s David Bulindah and Maura Kizito about food sovereignty and community building.

Additional Events

June 2 | (Music)

June 2 | (Asian Languages & Literature)

June 2 – June 6 | (Astronomy)

June 3 | (Music)

June 4 | (Music)

June 4 | (Psychology)

June 5 | (Music)

June 5 | (Speech & Hearing)

June 5 | (Labor Studies)

June 5 | (Art + Art History + Design)

June 6 | (Dance)

June 6 | (Geography)

June 7 | (Music)

Week of June 9

Wednesday, June 11 to Friday, June 27 | (Jacob Lawrence Gallery)

At the end of the spring quarter, the academic year culminates in comprehensive exhibitions of design work created by graduating students. The UW Design Show 2025, showcasing the capstone projects of graduating BDes students, will be held from June 11 to June 27 in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

Additional Events

June 11 | (Henry Art Gallery)

June 11 | (Art + Art History + Design)

June 12 & June 13 | (DXARTS)

June 13 | (Art + Art History + Design)

Events for the week of June 23

June 24 | (Information Sessions)

June 25 | (Information Sessions)

June 26 | (Information Sessions)

June 27 | (Information Sessions)

Commencement

June marks the end of many College of Arts & Sciences students’ undergraduate experience. Interested in attending a graduation ceremony? Click here to find information on ceremonies across campus.

April 30, 7:30 pm | 听Meany Hall

May 1, 12:30 pm听| North Allen Library Lobby

Students of the UW School of Music perform in this听lunchtime concert series co-hosted听by UW Music and UW Libraries.

Free |听

May 1, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Allen Library

Join The Henry M. Jackson of International Studies for a lecture and discussion with Daniel J. Sargent, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. This seminar is also part of the U.S. in the World Lecture Series.

Daniel J. Sargent holds appointments in the Department of History and the Goldman School of Public Policy and co-directs Berkeley鈥檚 Institute of International Studies. He is the author of A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s.

May 1, 7:30 pm |听 Brechemin Auditorium

Associate professor of ethnomusicology John-Carlos Perea presents a concert of cedar flute songs featuring arrangements of jazz standards by Coltrane, Ellington, Ayler, and Jordan. With special guests听Jessica Bissett Perea (voice),听Rose Martin (percussion, voice),听Jess Pena Manalo (voice), and听Marc Seales (piano).

Free |

May 2, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Gates Hall

Join the Simpson Center for the Humanities for a roundtable on pressing issues related to art and intellectual property in the age of artificial intelligence. Moderator Melanie Walsh (Information School) will be joined by Kelly McKernan, an artist and one of the plaintiffs in the first class action lawsuit against the major AI companies, Geoffrey Turnovsky (French), a historian of copyright, Kat Walsh, legal expert and the General Counsel at Creative Commons, and Takiyah Ward, a multidisciplinary artist based in Seattle championing fair compensation for artists.

Free |

May 2, 5:30 – 9:00 pm | Hugo House

Join the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies for the annual Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies gathering that brings leading feminist thinkers into community with local activists, allies, and alumni. 听will discuss her recent book听 in conversation with听. These scholars at the forefront of intersex and transgender studies will delve into the legacy of medical violence on intersex and gender non-conforming lives听and听the resistance and resilience of activists advocating for change, on local and global stages.

Free |

May 2, 6:00 – 7:30 pm | Husky Union Building

In Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Divergent States, Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel explain how, over the last thirty years, Russia and Ukraine diverged politically, ending up on a catastrophic collision course. Russia slid back into authoritarianism and imperialism, while Ukraine consolidated a competitive political system and pro-European identity. As Ukraine built a democratic nation-state, Russia refused to accept it and came to see it as an 鈥渁nti-Russia鈥� project. These irreconcilable goals, rather than geopolitical wrangling between Russia and the West over NATO expansion, are 鈥� the authors argue 鈥� essential to understanding Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine.

Free |

May 3, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Julia Tai leads the Seattle Modern Orchestra and members of the UW Modern Music Ensemble, led by Director Cristina Vald茅s, in a program featuring the West Coast premiere of Clocks for Seeing听by guest composer听Anthony Cheung听and world premieres听by UW graduate students听Justin Zeitlinger, Joe Krycia, Melissa Wang, and听Yonatan Ron.

Tickets |

May 3 – 4, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | 听Intellectual House

Join the Department of American Indian Studies for the 12th annual “Living Breath of w菨色菨b蕯altx史” Indigenous Foods Symposium. The symposium has become an important venue for bringing together people from diverse communities and organizations who share the same commitment to protecting Indigenous homelands and the environment. It serves to foster dialogue and build collaborative networks as Indigenous peoples strive to sustain cultural food practices and preserve healthy relationships to the land, water, and all living things.

Free |

May 3, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Gowen Hall

Join the Department of History for a talk and discussion with , Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy at University College London, along with graduate student discussant Jana Foxe, from the UW Political Science Department.

Free |

May 4, 10:00 am | First Lutheran Church

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